To act with impunity can contribute to his realization that he cannot gas or shoot his way out of his predicament. But assad must be held accountable for using these weapons in the international community. So will president obama get the votes he needs from the congress . I believe we cannot close our eyes to this clear violation of longstanding International Norms. Lets have a real debate in this country and not a meaningless debate. The clock clearly ticking tonight, showdown syria. Were going to begin with the big story, critically Important News with one senator who was front and center at the hearings today before the Foreign Relations committee. Listen this Heated Exchange between chris murphy and secretary of state john kerry. Now we have this most recent use of weapons of mass destruction and contra vengs of nearly 100 years of prohibition of their use. Thats not the dispute but the dispute is the ability of the military to be influenced no, no, the dispute is what are you prep
The presidency. President obama marshalling big guns trying to make the case for a strike on syria. Forcing assad to change his calculations about his ability to act with impunity can contribute to his realization that he cannot gas or shoot his way out of his predicament. But assad must be held accountable for using these weapons in the international community. So will president obama get the votes he needs from the congress . I believe we cannot close our eyes to this clear violation of longstanding International Norms. Lets have a real debate in this country and not a meaningless debate. The clock clearly ticking tonight, showdown syria. Were going to begin with the big story, critically Important News with one senator who was front and center at the hearings today before the Foreign Relations committee. Listen this Heated Exchange between chris murphy and secretary of state john kerry. Now we have this most recent use of weapons of mass destruction and contra vengs of nearly 100 ye
Military force in syria. Property posed resolution limits the augtozigs to 60 days with a 30day deadline with no u. S. Troops to be included on the ground in syria. All this on the day the crucial hearings began on the power of the president si. President obama marshalling big guns trying to make the case for a strike on syria. Forcing assad to change his calculations about his ability to act with impunity can contribute to his realization that he cannot gas or shoot his way out of his predicament. But assad must be held accountable for using these weapons in the international community. So will president obama get the votes he needs from the congress . I believe we cannot close our eyes to this clear violation of longstanding International Norms. Lets have a real debate in this country and not a meaningless debate. The clock clearly ticking tonight, showdown syria. Were going to begin with the big story, critically Important News with one senator who was front and center at the hearin
Were talking about 200 pieces of explosives falling on targets inside syria. And today we learned some of what they took out. Fired from the uss philippine c. Now the intended target was the Communications Array on the roof of the building. Detonated as air bursts with the effects focusing on the Communications Array. The flight of the f22s delivered gpsguided munitions, precision munitions targeting, again, only the right side of the building. You can see on the right hand side the aftershock. This was a residential area that had been used for training site and logistics site for isil fighters. These were the isis targets. But we now know a separate set of air strikes also took place aimed at eliminating a terror cell apparently on the verge of executing an attack. President obama getting to speak at the global the clinton global initiative. But earlier, he spoke about the threat of this group. Last night, we also took strikes to disrupt plotting against the United States and our alli
To use from the ground. This is not exactly expect ed to sit well with some lawmakers, some members of congress who, as you can recall, were against arming the rebel this is the first place in the syrian civil war. Concern that not enough information, quite frankly, is known as about the background of the rebel fighters. Thousand with isis extending its reach, as you can see here way beyond syria and iraq the stake got higher. The u. S. Needs help in syria. The u. S. Military is already doing it with kurdish fighters in iraq. That does appear to be working. Just a day isiss advance came to a screeching halt near irbil. Calling in u. S. Air strikes to finish the job. Is ben there . Let me know. For months we have been see seeing the u. S. Backed peshmerga fighters pushing back in iraq. They are the u. S. s eyes and ears on the ground. In syria, by comparison the United States has been practically fighting blind. Now we are learning the u. S. Is planning to introduce a new syrian force t